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reconˈtinue, v. ? Obs. [ad. obs. F. recontinuer (13th c. in Littré): see re- and continue v. In common use c 1570–1640.] trans. To go on again with (an action, occupation, state, etc., which has been discontinued).
c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 1112 Rescu yondyr knyghtes & recontynu fyght. 1536Elyot Let. to Cromwell in Gov. (1883) I. p. cxxxi, As for my first sute, I shall at your lordshippes better laysour recontynue it, trusting allso in your lordshippes favor therein. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 423 He was..annointed king, and so re-continued the right of the house of Yorke. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xlvii. (1739) 79 He re-continued the Liberty of publick Consultations. 1802M. Charlton tr. La Fontaine's Reprobate I. 106 He had resumed the care of his flowers, and my father had recontinued his journal. Hence reconˈtinued ppl. a.; reconˈtinuing vbl. n.
1535–6Act 27 Hen. VIII, c. 24 (title) An Acte for re⁓contynuyng of certayn liberties. 1587T. Hughes Misfort. Arthur iii. i, Where men with reconciled mindes Renew their loue with recontinued grace. |